BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. The question in each of these cases is how you use your leadership skills so you can “fake it until you make it?”. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

After every idea is placed, the group engages in a strategic conversation about each idea’s placement. With more time, we frequently develop a decision support tool for a client to use in prioritizing strategic opportunities. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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Exercises Strategic Thinking eBook Groups 77

BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? The task at hand is selecting “champions” from among the organization’s leadership team to move forward with strategic initiatives developed from the input of employees across the organization. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 23, 2017

What the prospective client wants to achieve: “We’ve sold-in a specific strategic planning process methodology, so that’s the approach we need to take.”. The best way to make it happen: We’re proposing arranging our strategic planning exercises within the framework they have already advanced. – Mike Brown.

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Exercises Collaboration Strategic Thinking eBook 58

BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

From before the engagement’s launch until near the completion, we asked for strategy documents spelling out corporate priorities, objectives, and expectations. We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

We use a diagnostic with senior leadership teams that ties to the ten innovation barriers. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.” Tackling Innovation Barriers.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There are many temptations out there to cut corners, take the easy but questionable way, or engage in behaviors that seem okay in secret but are clearly not okay when exposed in the light of day. Provides the opportunity to engage with people daily. Daily mass creates engagement with other people first thing.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

Selecting and shaping strong implementation leadership. Specific features include: 10 ways to simplify and strengthen the language you use to communicate strategic priorities. 9 ideas for introducing your strategic plan with style and impact to gain the organization’s attention and engagement.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

On a personal basis, certain strategic leadership basics are a good place to start adjusting your attitude and growth as a strategic leader. We offer a wide variety of strategic thinking exercises to change perspectives and look at day-to-day and longer-term problems in novel ways.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. Based on the results, it has a new role as a strategic planning question. The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I long ago learned an important lesson about corporate branding decisions : no matter how many intriguing, mentally-engaging brand strategy conversations you have among senior executives, those conversations NEVER lead to final decisions. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? We do not pretend to be able to imagine EVERY single situation where you might apply our strategic thinking exercises. I was working yesterday on designing an upcoming strategic planning Zoomference for a client.

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